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<blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 3972251" data-attributes="member: 7396"><p>My thoughts on Dragonborn would be to have them in the area of the Plain of Fire and the Great Waste, and to have been a servitor race originally created by the Nithians. Alternately, if we're sticking with the "remnants of ancient empire" idea, then they could be from someplace like Davinia or the Arm of God, and simply recently arrived in the Known World.</p><p></p><p>Same goes for the tieflings. They look like diaboli alright, but the mechanics might be hard to do (not sure what the tiefling's racial attributes are in 4e). Also, I seem to recall that diaboli were immune to Mystaran magic, which could definately make for some balance issues.</p><p></p><p>As for wizards, I don't think the changes will be too bad. OD&D didn't have spell schools for instance, so losing those simply makes things more like the Great School of Magic in GAZ3. Secret Crafts can probably be covered by paragon/epic paths, and it sounds like those would be a better fit than prestige classes. </p><p></p><p>If I've been reading correctly, the paths are extra powers that the characters get on top of their normal progression, which is pretty much what the Crafts were. And the two paths gives you 20 levels of progression to play with instead of just 10. Some of those 4th and 5th circle abilities should definately be epic! Paths could probably also be used to reinstate the original Companion rules for druids and paladins, where one had to work toward those classes instead of starting as one.</p><p></p><p>Changes to other classes wouldn't be too bad, I don't think. Warlocks seem like they would fit in well, with all the Immortals and other extra-planar weirdness. Dividing the warlocks up between the Spheres would be interesting, but there could be others. Since Mystara's cosmology is so open, just about any of the new planes and entities that WotC comes up with could fit.</p><p></p><p>Really, I never had any problem with running Mystara in 3e. I just had the players make the characters they wanted and we found a way to fit them in. Monk was from Ethengar, paladin served Ixion, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Byrons_Ghost, post: 3972251, member: 7396"] My thoughts on Dragonborn would be to have them in the area of the Plain of Fire and the Great Waste, and to have been a servitor race originally created by the Nithians. Alternately, if we're sticking with the "remnants of ancient empire" idea, then they could be from someplace like Davinia or the Arm of God, and simply recently arrived in the Known World. Same goes for the tieflings. They look like diaboli alright, but the mechanics might be hard to do (not sure what the tiefling's racial attributes are in 4e). Also, I seem to recall that diaboli were immune to Mystaran magic, which could definately make for some balance issues. As for wizards, I don't think the changes will be too bad. OD&D didn't have spell schools for instance, so losing those simply makes things more like the Great School of Magic in GAZ3. Secret Crafts can probably be covered by paragon/epic paths, and it sounds like those would be a better fit than prestige classes. If I've been reading correctly, the paths are extra powers that the characters get on top of their normal progression, which is pretty much what the Crafts were. And the two paths gives you 20 levels of progression to play with instead of just 10. Some of those 4th and 5th circle abilities should definately be epic! Paths could probably also be used to reinstate the original Companion rules for druids and paladins, where one had to work toward those classes instead of starting as one. Changes to other classes wouldn't be too bad, I don't think. Warlocks seem like they would fit in well, with all the Immortals and other extra-planar weirdness. Dividing the warlocks up between the Spheres would be interesting, but there could be others. Since Mystara's cosmology is so open, just about any of the new planes and entities that WotC comes up with could fit. Really, I never had any problem with running Mystara in 3e. I just had the players make the characters they wanted and we found a way to fit them in. Monk was from Ethengar, paladin served Ixion, etc. [/QUOTE]
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